Moderna Museet is one of Europe’s leading museums of modern and contemporary art. Our vision is to continue to work in the open and experimental spirit for which Moderna Museet has always been known. The presence of the art and the artists is our key concern, along with our dialogue with an actively participating audience. By developing this interaction, we build a Museum for the future.

Moderna Museet takes risks in the name of art. The Museum is famous for this, and we continue to pursue our activities in this spirit, enabling all artistic disciplines to meet, and confronting contemporary audiences with the best from the past.

Moderna Museet is the obvious meeting place for people who want to see modern and contemporary art in Sweden. Here, they will find internationally famous masterpieces that attract many returning visitors. But it is equally important to offer new impulses to visitors who are curious about what is being created today. The Museum’s collection is a dynamic and growing resource that is shown from new perspectives constantly. New experiences arise in interaction with the temporary exhibitions.

The open museum is both a collection of key works and a mobile arena for activities that engage the public and the world beyond the museum walls. With rich programmes of activities and playful events, the audience meets not just the art but the artists themselves. Ultimately, we are concerned with art as an experience for people of all ages, and art as a source of knowledge about the world, and about ourselves.

Verbier Festival

The Verbier Festival is a classical music festival which encourages encounters and sharing between great musicians and young aspiring artists from around the world. With its different orchestral programmes, the Festival strives towards excellence in music education. The audience is invited to live a special experience at the heart of the Swiss Alps by attending prestigious concerts, witnessing unique encounters and participating in a wide range of free activities.

In the early nineties, after twelve years working as an artists’ agent, Martin T:son Engstroem had an ambitious idea-to create a summer festival in the heart of the Swiss Alps, far from the major cities where most festivals take place. Verbier had the intimate atmosphere he felt was necessary to encourage musical excellence, and at the same time be open to the world. He imagined a festival with a resident youth orchestra and an academy where renowned artists would teach the next generation and audiences would have a wide choice of activities from early morning until late at night. In 1994, his vision became a reality.

The Verbier 3-D Foundation Sculpture Park and Residency

The Verbier 3-D Foundation is a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting the creation of contemporary art to promote environmentalism, education, and culture to local and international audiences. Founded in 2010 by New York-based artist Madeleine Paternot and Verbier-based artist Kiki Thompson, the foundation creates experimental artist residencies inspired by the stunning Alpine environment of Verbier, Switzer- land at an altitude of 2,300 meters between La Chaux and Ruinettes. In the words of curator Paul Goodwin: "On the mountain, faced with such sublime vistas, the visitor can experience these works of art…completely removed from the gallery or museum, directly confronting the truth of nature. This is the true meaning of a museum without walls." More than one million visitors to Verbier can access the Sculpture Park for free year round. Swiss artist Olaf Breuning was invited for the 2017 Artist Residency during which he created a new photographic project SAVE THE CLIMATE! This work considers the role human migration plays as a contributing factor to climate change. Breuning was part of a 4-year initiative started in 2016 by the Foundation that units artists, locals and scientists to chronicle the climatic impact of the surrounding glacial environment.

The latest addition to the Sculpture Park is the work Interference Cube by Swiss architects Gramazio Kohler which launches the foundation's latest programme of new work acquired by the Foundation showcasing artists not in residence who are experimental in their practice, whilst providing an insight into the range and diversity of contemporary artists’ work in the sculpture field.

Interference Cube explores new strategies for making patterns from algorithms and marks Gramazio Kohler’s first sensual encounter with the phenomena they describe as “digital materiality”. The research of Gramazio Kohler has been formative in the field of digital architecture, creating a new research field merging advanced architectural design and additive fabrication processes through the use of industrial robots.

EPFL+ECAL Lab

The EPFL+ECAL Lab is a unit of the EPFL (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) in cooperation with ECAL (Ecole Cantonale d’Art de Lausanne). Its mission is to foster innovation at a crossroads between technology, design and architecture. The Lab bases its activities along three axes: giving new meaning to technologies developed in the labs, fuelling innovation by widening the scope of designers’ work and forming new links between research and applications for society. On its premises across two floors in the ECAL building in Renens, the EPFL+ECAL Lab offers training as well as innovation projects and partnerships with industry.

EPFL+ECAL Lab projects leads to real design works turned into prototypes, but also new understanding of human, and major exhibitions. Musée des arts décoratifs in Paris, American Institute of Architecture, Eyebeam and Parsons in New York, Harvard University, Royal College of Art in London and many other institutions have presented projects. One of the key activitiy focuses on the new contribution of art to innovation, in collaboration with IRCAM and Centre Pompidou and on the valorization of cultural Heritage, with artists like Pierre Soulages, Montreux Jazz Festival or Vacheron Constantin.